18/37 What a strange household! Did you ever see such a peppery pair as that swearing old colonel and his acid daughter ?" "I don't know that I blame them. I think, sometimes, George, that you New Englanders are the most selfish of people. You're always denouncing the faults of others, but you never see any of your own. Away back in the Revolution when Boston called, the Southern provinces came to her help, but Boston and New England have spent a large part of their time since then denouncing the South." "What's struck you, Dick? |